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Show HN: BoxLite - Micro-VMs as a library, a server, or a distributed service

Polygala released BoxLite, an open-source micro-VM runtime written in Rust that can be embedded as a library, run as a standalone server, or clustered as a distributed service for AI agent workloads. BoxLite provides sandbox-grade isolation with warm starts of around 100ms, and the code is available at github.com/boxlite-ai/boxlite with documentation at docs.boxlite.ai.

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We're Polygala, and we believe micro-VMs are the right primitive for AI agents. They bundle everything an agent needs into one boundary: sandbox-grade isolation, near-native performance, fast boot, and a clean unit for scaling cloud resources to agents on demand.

BoxLite is a micro-VM runtime in Rust, designed to span the full range of agent deployments:

  • Library - embed it in-process and ship sandboxing as a feature.

  • Server - run it standalone for multi-tenant workloads.

  • Distributed service - cluster it for serverless-scale execution.

One repo. Warm start around 100ms. From sandbox to serverless, from security to scale.

Repo: [https://github.com/boxlite-ai/boxlite](https://github.com/boxlite-ai/boxlite)

Docs: [https://docs.boxlite.ai/](https://docs.boxlite.ai/)
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